Blacksburg, VA (Sports Network) - Erick Green scored 24 points to lead the Virginia Tech Hokies to a 95-79 win over the Iowa Hawkeyes at Cassell Coliseum as part of the ACC/Big Ten Challenge.

Robert Brown added 18 points on 6-of-8 shooting from the floor for Virginia Tech (6-0) while Jarell Eddie and C.J. Barksdale both finished with 11 points and seven rebounds. Joey van Zegeren provided a spark off the bench with 10 points in 12 minutes.

The contest went back and forth for much of the first half. Virginia Tech was trailing 37-36 with 3:16 left before the break, but it closed the period on a 10-1 run to take a 46-38 lead into halftime. Both sides went 15-of-30 from the floor in the opening 20 minutes, but Virginia Tech outscored the visitors 13-5 at the foul line to go into the intermission on top.

The Hokies continued their momentum and scored the first nine points of the second half to build a 17-point lead with just under 17 minutes left to play. Iowa battled back to make it a three-point deficit, but Virginia Tech caught fire again to push its advantage back up to a double-digit margin. The Hokies made 16-of-24 attempts from inside the three-point line after halftime to run off to the 16-point decision.

Virginia Tech converted 27-of-30 attempts the free throw line in the contest while Iowa went 13-of-18 at the charity stripe.